Trump announced the UK's plans to transfer the island of Diego Garcia to Mauritius

On January 20, US President Donald Trump announced that the UK would transfer the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius for no reason. He made a corresponding statement on the TruthSocial social network.

"Our 'brilliant' NATO ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning, for no reason whatsoever, to transfer the island of Diego Garcia, where the most important US military base is located, to Mauritius,— he wrote.

In addition, he added that Denmark and its European allies must do the right thing by handing Greenland over to the United States in the interests of national security.

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The island has prospects for resource extraction, but it will be expensive to develop

On August 10, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that the lease of the Chagos archipelago in the center of the Indian Ocean for the UK has increased to 35 billion pounds ($ 46.7 billion), which is 10 times more than promised by the country's Prime Minister Keir Starmer. It was noted at the time that the Prime Minister would abandon the islands in favor of the Diego Garcia military base, which was built there in the 1970s.

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